The Cecil Whig., 1887-11-12
NYE AS a CANDIDATE.
He Puts Himself in the Hands of his fri"r

| ! ok Tor a long time ana 1tit Jne nOur
had now arrived for politics in this city
to be purified. WnnId assist HIM in
this great work? If So would appoint
a tr, sting place where we could meet and
trysl? | suggested the holy hush and
quiet of Broadway or the New York end
of the East river bridge at o'clock; but
he said no, we might be discovered. So
we agreed to meet at my house. There
he told me his idea was to run me for the
State Senate this fall, not because he had
any political ak to grind hut because he
wanted to see old methods wiped out and
the will of the people tud true and un-
ietteled expression.
| "And, SIR | asked, ''may | ask what
party you rcplesent?'
Il represent those who wish for purity,
those who sigh for the results of un-
thought suttrages, those who despise old
methods and yearn to hear the unsmoth-
cred voice OF the people"
Then yen are Mr.. Nox Popnli himself
perhaps"
ono, my name is kargill and am in
dead earnest. represent the party OF
Purity in New York"
Finally said reluctantly that | would
accept, for have always said that would
never shrink from my duty i'll Case
ferment.
Iu running for office in Wyoming our
greatest expense and annoyance arose
from the immense distances we had to
travel in order to go over one county.
Many day have travelled through an
exciting canvass from daylight to dark
without meeting a voter. But here was
a senatorial district not larger than a
loint school district, and thought thai
the expense of making a canvass would
be comparatively small.
That was where | made a mistake. On
the day after Mr.. Lucifer kargll had en-
tered my home, and with honeyed words
made me believe that New York had
been, tguratively speaking, sitting back
on her launches tor fifty years waiting
for me to come along and be standard
bearer, man came to my house who
said he had heard that | was looking
toward the Senate ard that he had come
to see me as the representative of his
Hall. | said that | did not care a con-
tinental for his Hall as far as my own
campaign was concerned, as ! intended
to do all my speaking in the school
houses.
| He said that did not understand HIM.
| What he wanted to know was, what per
centage OF my gross earnings at Albany
would 90 into his particular hall sinking
fund, provided that organization endorsed
me? | said that | was going INTO this
campaign to purify polItics. and that |
would do What was Sht lo"ard his hall
| in ORDER to be placed III a position where
| could get In my work as purifier.
We then had long talk upon what he
| called the needs OF the hour He said
that would make a good candidate, as
|
| Besides he could see that | had the ele-
ments OF success, for | had never ex.
pressed any opinion about anything, and
| had never antagoniZed any of the differ
| ent wings of the party by saying anything
that people had paid any attention to.
| lie said also that he learned | had be-
| longed to all the different parties, and SO
would be familiar with the methods of
each. He then asked me to sign a pledge,
and after | had done SO he shook hands
with me and went away.
The next day l was waited upon by the
| treasurels Of eleven chowGer clubs, the
| financial secretary o! the Shants Sharp
shooters and Goat Hill volunteers. A
man also came to obtain means for bury
ing dead friend. aftervard saw him
| doing SO to some extent. He was bury
| my his friend oeucasn The solemn shadow
of heavy ma;Iogany- -colored mustache.
of which he was the sole proprietor.
| give below a rough draught of some
of my expenses:
STATEMENT NOW IN THE HANDS or ASSIGNEE:
Loaned t" red -noSed gentleman VIII" discov-
| cred me and pleaded with me to run Tor
| the office SO that the people could have
| pure administration. SO
| Paid rent OF man who claimed to have intu-
| ence. but whose wife is in the habit OF kick
| ing him under the lounge and wcltinG
| him over the head with II carpet-Stretohcr ~ ~
| Advanced to Early GaIoot club tor demon
| stratiun purposes. viz. Tor purchase of $50
torches which demon. tration was a failure
| owing to the inability Uf the six members
to carry 500 torches while drunk W
| Paid man vino agreed 10 throw Il Stere0p
| ticon view OF myself against the side of The
| Grand Central depo' all night, together
| with the announcement that l was the
| peoples choice. but which said man,
| aiIerward learned. got $50 Tor putting
above the portrait an ilumited legend, ,aS
| follows: This man would have looked bet
| ter il he used Slcnck'S Mandrake pills. 25 90
| Paid to- votes while running at Il Zig church
| fair Tor embroidered SuSpenuers voted to
| "the most popular hairless man in New
| York. SS32. Credit by suspenders, 40c-
pai"hce'' 'o"l w
|
| he'd frequently allude 10 it, but who took
| the coat and paid IA long contemplated
visit to his boy hood home in Ohio ........ - W
| Paid for eight line reading notice in the col
umuS OF the Elevated Railway and Adver
tiscr>.... ...............- - W
| Miscella neOus expenses. including railway
fare OF my wife. who has gone home to her
| parents to remain until get politics puri-
ned 40 w
| Paid Tor cigars to use during political cam
| 80 20
| Paid ior strong political pulls to use in work
ing said cigars ......-.......... 81
| Paid political ward worker, who needed
| little money in the house, and his vile
| had Just presented him with twins ~ 90
| One week later thought!essly laid same
| under what purported to be similar
circumstances. .................. ........ IL 90
Yesterday | tried to tind the red-nost d
man who first asked mo to - into the
standard bearer business III order to with :
draw my name but | could not tnr! him
| in the dnectury. | therefore take this
means of saying, as | sand to 10 assignee.
| last evening, that ii !. public office be u
| public bust, ! migbs just as well bus5
| now ;rd have it over.
| T, ,,n,r,u 7 ~ill vnl, ,,,+ ,-,vraSidapn.